Monthly Archive: August 2013

Featured Poem 8/19 – “please advise stop [I was dragging a ladder slowly over stones stop]” 0

Featured Poem 8/19 – “please advise stop [I was dragging a ladder slowly over stones stop]”

please advise stop [I was dragging a ladder slowly over stones stop] by Rusty Morrison   I was dragging a ladder slowly over stones stop it was only from out of my thoughts that I...

Poetic Forms Winner: Climbing Rhyme 0

Poetic Forms Winner: Climbing Rhyme

Hi everyone, if you’ve not heard of Climbing Rhyme before, please read Wednesday’s post to find out more about it. There was a lot of interest this week and it was well deserved as...

10 Books of Summer – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Wake-Up Call 1

10 Books of Summer – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Wake-Up Call

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl...

Poetic Forms: Climbing Rhyme 8

Poetic Forms: Climbing Rhyme

Hello Everyone! Welcome to week four of poetic forms, where every week I introduce a different type of poem and invite you to give it a go! As an added incentive to take part,...

Featured Poem 8/12 – “The Present” 0

Featured Poem 8/12 – “The Present”

The Present by Philip Levine   The day comes slowly in the railyard behind the ice factory. It broods on one cinder after another until each glows like lead or the eye of a dog...

Poetic Forms Winner: The Terza Rima 0

Poetic Forms Winner: The Terza Rima

Hi everyone, if you don’t know what a Terza Rima is yet, then go find out and we’ll be waiting for you on the other side! This week only one person entered and before...

Novels and Nonsense #3 – Opening Chapters 0

Novels and Nonsense #3 – Opening Chapters

Anyone who’s ever received a first chapter review from me will have probably been a victim of my ‘opening chapters are vitally important’ preach. As annoying as my preaching may be though, it is...

Writer, Agent, Editor: Careers in Publishing 1

Writer, Agent, Editor: Careers in Publishing

I’m an English major, so I would love to know more about careers in publishing. One of the things I find people don’t know about publishing is exactly how many jobs you can do...